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Re: ChatGPT and the navigation stars...
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2024 Jul 14, 23:44 -0700
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2024 Jul 14, 23:44 -0700
Frank,
you wrote: "I'm assuming here you did "chat" with ChatGPT"
Yes, indeed it was using ChatGPT. 4.o to be specific. I do not have any experience with others, maybe one of them would be better.
You also wrote: "A few years back (was it 2016?), the IAU agreed to the spelling "Alnair" for "alpha Gruis" instead of the older "Al Na'ir" which was the common way of writing the name for decades in the Nautical Almanac and everywhere else in celestial navigation"
That is entirely on me. I fed AI the names in the quantity and order of my choosing. And my notes say Al'Nair. I had no idea it was renamed, thanks for pointing that out.
